Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Less than half of American adults say religion is important: study
Despite less than half of Americans ranking religion as an important part of their daily life, America is still more devout when it comes to religion than their economic peers, such as the United Kingdom or Germany, data from a new Gallup poll show.
Judge greenlights Cindy Clemishire’s defamation lawsuit against Gateway Church after she highlights suffering
A Dallas County District Court judge has ruled that Cindy Clemishire's defamation lawsuit filed earlier this summer against Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and its embattled founder, Robert Morris, can proceed despite the defendants' efforts to have the case dismissed.
In meeting with Jamaica’s prime minister, Pastor Jamal Bryant offers prayer, aid and pledges to visit
In a remote meeting with Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday, Pastor Jamal Bryant offered prayer, aid and pledged to visit the storm-ravaged nation.
Convicted former youth pastor Lindsey Whiteside’s bail revoked amid new child sex abuse case
Lindsey Whiteside, the former youth minister of Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi, who was set free pending trial for child sex abuse after a recent conviction for a similar crime, is back in jail and will remain there until her trial next year.
Ex-worship pastor charged after confessing to sexual relationship with underage student years ago
Matthew McGinley, a former worship and associate pastor of the Ascent Project in Fort Collins, Colorado, who recently confessed to a past sexual relationship with a student when he taught at a well-known Christian school, has been arrested and charged with felony sexual assault of a minor.
Megachurch Pastor Brian Coffey accused of negligence in alleged sexual abuse of minor by youth leader
Brian Coffey, the interim lead pastor of the multi-campus Chapelstreet Church in Geneva, Illinois, has been accused in a lawsuit of knowingly allowing a former youth leader, who admitted to abusing a minor, to continue to work with children resulting in the sexual abuse of the son of two missionaries connected to the church.
Self-styled 'prophet' Lovy Elias sued for sexual battery, harassment by woman in alleged affair
Lovy Elias, the self-styled tongues-talking "prophet" and founder of Revelation Church LA, is being sued by a former church member who claims he coerced her into an exploitative long-term sexual relationship, tricked her into thinking he would marry her and father her children, but went on to wed someone else.
Resi’s Studio AI promises to help churches boost engagement
Resi, a leading Texas-based firm that provides a multisite, web and on-demand streaming service, has launched a new product that it says will help churches enhance their online visibility with the aid of artificial intelligence.
Pastor John Kliewer leaves Duluth Vineyard, wife claims church’s defamation gave husband PTSD
John Kliewer, the whistleblowing former interim senior pastor of the Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, who was falsely accused of leadership abuse as he tried to hold church officials accountable in the wake of a sex abuse scandal, has formally cut ties with the church.
Pastor’s mistress LaToshia Daniels is found guilty of second-degree murder
LaToshia Daniels, the former social worker mistress of the late Pastor Brodes Perry of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, Tennessee was spared having to spend the rest of her life in prison or even sentenced to death last Friday after a jury found her not guilty of first degree murder.
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